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Summary

Whether you are creating a catchy and fun cartoon, designing a print banner advertisement, or developing content for a mobile game, save time and money with expert techniques, trips and tricks from by Adobe Certified Expert, Rafiq Elmansy with Illustrator Foundations. With practical applications and step by step tutorials, solve problems quickly to develop creative projects on time and to budget. Want to hone your Illustrator skills so you can remain competitive in a diverse market while concentrating on your vector graphics projects? Then Illustrator Foundations is for you! With real-world professional projects you'll discover how to: develop mobile applications, work with layers, masks, vector images and many more tips and tricks not found anywhere else! Harness the full Creative Suite software package with tips on how to integrate Illustrator with Photoshop and After Effects. This book is a goldmine of artistic inspiration, timesaving practical tips, tricks and step-by-step walkthroughs; you'll wonder how you survived this long without it. Put the Adobe Illustrator CS6 techniques to the test with the fully updated companion website with downloadable Illustrator source files, examples and video tutorials.

Table of Contents

Chapter 01: Introduction to Adobe Illustrator CS6

Introducing Illustrator CS6 and its new features

The anatomy of Illustrator main interface

Illustrator docking panels

Manage Illustrator workspaces

Working with the Illustrator resources

Chapter 02: Working with Documents

Creating New Documents

Illustrator presets and templates

XMP Metadata

Understanding Art boards

Working with rulers and guides

Working with grids

Working with smart guides

Working with document views

Chapter 03: Working with selection

Working with the selection tools

Selection with attribute or type

Saving selection

Selection beneath objects

Selection preferences

Chapter 04: Layers

Understanding the layers

Layer panel

Working with groups

Isolated modes

Chapter 05: Drawing in Illustrator

Path primitives

Anchor points

Working with paths

Compound paths

Drawing in perspective

Drawing with the pencil tool

Working with stokes

The Erase tool

Working with shapes

Managing the drawing task

Chapter 06: Colors and Gradient

Working with the color swatches panel

Working with transparency

Working with gradient

Working with patterns

Live Painting

Chapter 07: Editing artwork

Transforming artwork

Resizing, reflecting and skewing artwork

Alignment and distribution

Working with Pathfinder

Chapter 08: Objects and symbols

Understanding the symbols in Illustrator

Working with the Symbols panel

Managing artwork with symbols

Working with the Symbol Sprayer tool

Working wit Slice 9 feature

Chapter 09: Working with images

Adding images to the Illustrator project

Managing images

Live Trace

Chapter 10: Masks

Cropping images

Clipping artwork and layer contents

Soft edges masks

Chapter 11: Text and paragraphs

Point text

Area text

Working with character properties

Working with paragraph

Text on path

Converting text to paths

Chapter 12: Working with Effects

Working with the appearance panel

Working with object attributes

Live Effects

Working with the appearance panel

Graphic styles

Chapter 13: 3D and drawing in perspective

Understanding the perspective grids

Drawing in the perspective

Converting 2D art to perspective look

Working with the 3D panel

Chapter 14: HTML5 and SVG

HTML5 and Illustrator

Converting Illustrator to HTML5

Creating SVG content for mobile and GPS in Illustrator

Chapter 15: Saving and Exporting

Saving the Illustrator document

Creating PDF from the Illustrator document

Exporting Illustrator files

Chapter 16: Creating web content in Illustrator

Converting your Illustrator design to web content

Using the Slice tool

Exporting web content

Chapter 17: Integration with Adobe CS6 applications

Integration with Photoshop

Integration with Flash

Integration with After Effects

Author(s) Bio

Rafiq Elmansy is a graphic designer for 10 years with background in traditional art and sculpture. His experience in graphic design includes working in different design projects as well as creative directing. He runs his own design company Pixel Consultations. He is also an Adobe Community Professional, Adobe Certified Expert and the founder and manager of the Adobe user group in Egypt (AUGE). Rafiq is also part of the Adobe Prerelease Program.
Rafiq Elmansy is an author in the graphic and design field, his articles are published in Adobe design and developer center, Adobe Edge magazine, communitymx.com and his design blog www.graphicmania.net. Recently, he becomes a Friend of Icograda (the International Council of Graphic Design Associations).

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